Pusuu Paunksneja Palanga

... nach zu urteilen, war er der litauischen Sprache wenig bis gar nicht mächtig, aber keine Ahnung was fürn Landsmann. Gut, ich kenn da ja nichts, ich also rund heraus:"You're not from here, are you?!" - "No..." - "Where you wanna go?" "I thought about the Curonian Spit, but I guess today it's to late..." - "What??? Why? C'm on! I'm going there either, may I join you, Ive already been here, thats not far!!!" - "Why not... Danny, nice to meet you!" - "Martina, nice to meet you ...

It took just over 3 hours to drive from Vilnius to Klaipeda with very light traffic. The drive is a little boring, but comfortable. The Magnisima Hotel is in the new (er) part of town within walking distance from the old town and with a secure parking lot in the rear. The room (#7) is very spacious and tastefully furnished. The street misses a couple of light poles, so gets a ...

... the waterfront, stopping occasionally. At one point, I notice a lot of nude people. As I observer more closely, it is all women. I had passed onto the border of the women only zone. I quickly turn around. There is a sign at the entrance in Lithuanian. No pictorial sign like I had seen before. Oops.<br><br>Lots of wind kept people against the sand dunes. There is a network of sand areas inside the dunes ...

There is a 6:35 and a 7 AM bus to Klaipeda, a beach town on the Baltic Sea. I wake up at 5:30, before my alarm. I rush to make the earlier bus but I am told to go on the later one. English is not widely spoken. The ticket person knew numbers. The bus is a nice one, double decker and I am on top. 3.5 hours. <br><br>As I walked to the bus station, I passed a bar. Several people were there having their breakfast beer.<br><br>My back has been acting up. Had some issues before ...

... publicly until the late 1980s. So, although not many people know, you can go and ask the ranger to show you the remains of the base, the control room and the massive diesel generator used to run it, the 25m deep silos, and the slide back mounds on top (yes, very Bond in Thunderball!). Awesome. Imagine trying to see that prior to 1991 when the country was under Russian rule.

... lose my interpreters so I decided to stick it out. Sure enough we were supplied with beer, champagne and mango juice. Some prizes were given out like beach towels and umbrellas. Of course, this is being done in Lithuanian so I had no clue what was being said! I pretended to look interested and prayed that he wouldn't call on me for some reason. Eventually the guy got into his sales pitch which it turns out was for some type of body massager. The machine looked quite cheap and ...

Ignore what we said about the worst campsite this beats the lot - toilets were holes in the ground, the shower was invented by the local made professor and was patented trust me when i say no one will by buying it!. As for Palanga it deserves better a great beach resort with loads to do and see, cheap and good fun for a few days or a week well worth a visit. While we were their they were holding a ...

... Språket i Litauen reknast for å vera det mest arkaiske nolevande indoeuropeiske språket. Ja, heime hjå mor og far min står det ei lærebok som heiter "Litauisch für Anfänger", men eg har ikkje heilt våga meg på denne enno. Men stor var overraskinga mi då eg fann ut at "når" heiter det same på litauisk som på bosnisk/kroatisk/serbisk. Og øl heiter "alus", så då kan eg spørja "når øl?" og vonaleg bli forstått ...

Today started bitterly cold. I don't think the hostel was heated :( Most of the hostels so far have been ace but with the heat in here I think I may have been better sleeping in the bus station next door (The location is fantastic though, almost in the parking lot of the bus station!). So it took me a bit to pull myself out of bed and brave outside. The town was actually quite pretty, I'd been warned that Klaipeda was a typical port town and ...

... stretch of sand from the ferry). So the plan is to make it to Nida, chill out for a few days while checking out the Curonian Spit. Supposed to be nice beaches, dunes and pine forests. Also met two really cool and cute Swiss girls, Eva and Regula. They are heading out to Nida tomorrow as well. It was cool chatting with them at the hostel, they were enjoying my strange Swiss-German accent (heavily americanized swiss-german) and laughing at it.